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The Agony Column

CHAPTER VI
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Again that odor of lilacs in the room.
"For a time I saw the captain often in London; and then I began to notice a change.

Back among his own kind, with the lonely days in India a mere memory--he seemed no longer to--to care for me.

Then--last Thursday morning--he called on me to tell me that he was through; that he would never see me again--in fact, that he was to marry a girl of his own people who had been waiting--" The woman looked piteously about at us.
"I was desperate," she pleaded.

"I had given up all that life held for me--given it up for a man who now looked at me coldly and spoke of marrying another.

Can you wonder that I went in the evening to his rooms--went to plead with him--to beg, almost on my knees?
It was no use.


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